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Agree with most of the takes here. I love what they were trying to do, and they do the war+class story really really well when it's the focus. But then they gradually abandon that narrative as the story goes on, and the last act is rushed and imo flat out bad in spots. I was especially let down at how Delita just stops showing up at all by the end (except the final scene of course, which is good).

I don't think the Zodiac stone stuff is inherently bad, there's some really good use of it earlier on when it's used to highlight the themes of the story and express character development and internal conflict in a fantasy way (most notably with Wiegraf). But then by the end it's just generic fantasy and there's very little subtext or meaning to anything going on. Even the Dycedarg confrontation was a disappointment to me, there's barely any dialogue and I got the impression the writers were rushing the game out the door by that point. It didn't feel like the emotional climax of Ramza's personal arc that it should have done, imo.

And yes the party members having nothing to say after recruitment really does hurt them, thankfully the antagonists in this game are far more compelling than in any other FF so it's not too egregious.

Overall I still want to give it a 9/10, just for how much I love the game when it's at its peak.

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Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado.